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April 2010

iPad day is rapidly approaching, and whether you're waiting in line already or can't handle anymore iPad hype, it's impossible to deny that Apple's new computing device has captured everybody's attention. Developers are hoping to cash in on the iPad ...

What do The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Cloth and The Ugly Duckling all have in common? They are all the work of Hans Christian Andersen, one of literature's most famous children's authors. Today, on what would have been his 205th b...

Twitter can predict box-office takings better than other industry-leading data sites, according to research just released by HP. Between the sentiments expressed and the rate at which buzz builds, the microblogging service outperforms other forecasti...

When people talk about content on the iPad, they mostly mention books, video, TV and games. But there are many other niche content types that fit the iPad's 9.7'' screen perfectly, and one of the more important ones is comics. It wasn't hard to predi...

In the film Minority Report, Tom Cruise utilizes amazing technologies from the year 2054, including talking billboards, jetpacks and, most famously, augmented reality gloves that allow him to interact with a computer interface without ever touching i...

The iPad application race is on. Among the thousands of applications expected to find their way into the App Store for Saturday’s device launch is Ustream, the popular service for live video. The company plans to bring its Ustream Viewer app to the i...

Lately, the Apple iPad has been making more TV appearances than Governor Blagojevich after that whole scandal thing. Its most recent moment in the sun? A cameo on The Colbert Report, during which Stephen C. knocked everyone from Apple to Amazon to AT...

In an attempt to fix one of the most common complaints about Google Buzz, the service has added a feature that automatically collapses long comment threads. Google outlines the changes in a blog post, but the net effect is this: For threads that have...

Come iPad launch day, you'll certainly have your pick of Twitter iPad apps. Now you can add popular desktop and iPhone app TweetDeck to that mix. While you can't use it until tomorrow morning, TweetDeck for iPad is available now in the App Store and ...

Ben Folds is back with another Merton-inspired video -- this one comprising footage from four live shows during which the indie icon busted out the Chatroulette. Merton the Chatroulette Piano Guy has become an Internet legend this past month, racking...

Japanese watch company Seiko has been making a line of watches with e-ink displays -- the same technology used in many e-book readers like the Amazon Kindle -- for a few years now, but the latest revision truly ups the ante. And with a product name l...

Al Gore wants YOU... to make a YouTube video about climate change. As part of the video site's Video Volunteer series, which helps match users with local volunteering opportunities and allows folks to create videos in support of their favorite causes...

Google has just made yet another acquisition: web video platform Episodic. Late last year, it was rumored that Google was interested in acquiring Episodic competitor Brightcove, but that deal never materialized. Now, Google gets a platform -- which w...

NASA undertook a very unique initiative with its HiWish program, which allows the general public to submit suggestions for where to point the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's high-resolution camera. The first eight images below from the HiWish program h...

In the seemingly never-ending flood of apps headed to the iPad, you can add one more: WordPress. WordPress for iPhone OS 2.4 is the first version of the Wordpress app that's iPad compatible. Built in conjunction with Small Society, WordPress 2.4 brin...

In less than 24-hours the iPad will finally be released. Now, the hardware, however sexy it might be, is not why so many people are itching to buy the device: It's all about the apps! In the ramp-up to the iPad release, more and more applications hav...

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Google has revealed its plans for iPad support, announcing a number of tablet-optimized tweaks for its services. For one, it's releasing an experimental user interface for Gmail based on the HTML5 mobile web app developed for the iPhone and Android. ...

Whole Foods, a popular health and organic grocery chain, is the subject of a new Facebook scam that phishes for users' credit and other personal information. A deluge of fraudulent Facebook Pages are popping up that promise a limited number of users ...

Instead of just making their iPhone app bigger, Loopt has opted to go in a different direction and focus on providing real-time content related to nearby places and events that are popular among friends with Loopt Pulse for iPad . If screenshots are ...

Fresh off launching its iPhone app – which quickly vaulted to #1 news app in the App Store –- Digg is out today with its native application for Android. The features are quite similar to those offered on iPhone, with the ability to browse top, recent...

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

Facebook has just acquired Divvyshot, a group photo-sharing service fresh out of private beta. The terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, but it sounds similar to Facebook's acquisition of Octazen in February. We do know that this was most...

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With its game mechanics and spunky badges, Foursquare could easily be mistaken for a frivolous mobile application with little to no value for businesses. As the startup races to the million member milestone, however, nothing could be further from the...

Apple has just launched a full store of iBooks -- digital offerings tailor-made for the iPad that will be available starting tomorrow. This move sets the iPad up as a Kindle-killer. "Amazon’s done a great job of pioneering this functionality with the...

Crying kids + pop music apparently equal viral gold nowadays. First, there was Crying Cody, whose antics won her a visit from Justin Bieber. Now, meet Losiah, who bursts into tears when his father tells him that he can't sing Beyonce's "Single Ladies...

Yes, it's that time once again, folks -- time for the Weekly Poll! So... Have you heard about this thing called the iPad? I think it's coming out... tomorrow? Yeah, with Steve Jobs's shiny baby popping up all over TV, pre-orders rolling in and folks ...

The results from this year's Twestival Global are still trickling in, but founder Amanda Rose let us know that the effort has raised more than $450,000 for Concern Worldwide, an international NGO helping fund educational projects around the world. Co...

Amazon’s Kindle app for iPad has found its way into the App Store just in time for tomorrow morning’s device launch. Like Kindle apps for other platforms, the iPad app includes Amazon’s Whispersync technology, which syncs your last page read, bookmar...

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